Penn Asylum of Philadelphia for Indigent BELGRADE STREET, ABOVE OTIS, EIGHTEENTth Ward. Incorporated Dec. 6, 1852. The requisites for participation in its charities are advanced age, destitution, and meritorious character. No one is admitted who has not passed the limits of sixty years, and whose character and habits are entirely without reproach. To all whom it receives it supplies a home during life, abundant food, comfortable clothing, and kind attendance. It is under the exclusive charge of ladies annually chosen for that purpose, who visit the Institution, carefully inspecting its condition and providing for its wants. House of the Immaculate Conception. WEST PHILADELPHIA INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. 39TH AND PINE STREETS. This Institution, conducted by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, has for its especial object the training of young girls in habits of piety and industry. For this purpose, the pupils are obliged to devote a certain portion of each day to acquiring a knowledge of every kind of work suitable to their sex; such as Dress and Shirt Making; Embroidery on Gold, Linen, Silk, and Flannel; Artificial Flowers, Knitting, Tatting, use of Sewing Machine, and all kinds of domestic work. Every care is taken to impart a solid English education, and form their young minds to practice of virtue. Pupils are received without distinction of creed from the age of five to twenty years, provided they bear a good moral character. The terms for admission vary according to the means of the parents or guardians. About twenty destitute orphan girls are received entirely free, and provided for by the Institution. The State pays for the maintenance of five soldiers' orphans $150 each. Number of pupils at present 70. Superior: Mother IGNATIA. 15 The Trustees of the Female Association of Chartered 1811. For the relief of Women and Children in reduced circumstances, not for the needy indiscriminately, but for those who have known better days. Franklin Reformatory Home for Inebriates LOCATED AT 913 AND 915 LOCUST STREET. Organized and Incorporated 1872. Charter revised and amended 1874. The object of this Home is the thorough and permanent reformation of Inebriates. There are alike combined in this Institution church privileges and home comforts; all that can be effected by the best medical treatment, careful nursing, and motherly affection, is here assured to fallen man; in fact, nothing is left undone that can be devised to rescue and permanently save the Inebriate from destruction. The usefulness and perpetuity of this Home depend largely upon the liberality of the Christian public. The Home Missionary Society, through their several agents, visit the Poor and Destitute of the city and suburbs, and in all worthy cases give them food, clothing, and fuel, and by spiritual advice and encouragement raising them up to help themselves, and, when needed, finding employment suited to their ability. Where there are children, providing homes for them with Christian families who will receive them either by adoption or apprenticeship, to be educated in fields of usefulness. The charities of this Society are saved from imposition by the visits, first in all cases, of one of the Agents to the Home of the applicants. The usefulness of this Society is only limited by its means, which are obtained alone by voluntary subscriptions. It commends itself to the humane and charitable, from whom donations of money or material are respectfully solicited. General Agent: Emanuel H. Toland. Missionaries: Albert G. Rowland and W. W. Walter. General Collector: Thomas T. Mason, No. 419 Arch Street. Office, 533 Arch Street. Boarding Home for Young Women. 915 CLINTON STREET. An institution where respectable young women may obtain board with all the comforts of a home for a very reasonable rate. At present the charge is $3 a week; this includes washing and medical attendance. Application should be made to the Matron at the Home. Physicians: Dr. Wharton Sinkler, Dr. Morris Longstreth. 1423 Lombard Street an institution similar to the above, and under the same rules. Physician: Dr. Herbert Norris. |